News - 23 Maggio 2020 World Press Freedom Day 2020: US Senate Introduces Bipartisan Resolution Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee that oversees human rights, together with their fellow senate constituents, introduced a bipartisan resolution on May 20th to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. Senators Menendez and Rubio led a bipartisan coalition of 13 senators to […]
News - 6 Aprile 2020 Coronavirus and Information: the Anti-journalist Virus is Killing Democracy In Italiano When you are facing a very grave crisis in a democracy, one that puts the lives of citizens in danger, as with a war or an earthquake– or even more so in a pandemic, how should journalists behave? Should they perhaps “suspend” their role of “watchdog” that digs up the wrongdoings of the […]
First Amendment - 20 Luglio 2019 Narrating America to Italians: a Book that Celebrates 10 Years of the Amerigo Award The event featured a speech by the spokeswoman of the US Embassy in Rome, Lillian de Valcourt-Ayala, the conferring of the book, "Raccontami l'America" (Tell Me About America) to those journalists who have won the Amerigo Award since 2009, and the presentation by Prof. Filippo Camerota of the digital version of the Martin Waldseemüller’s Map (1470 c. - 1521), considered the ‘birth certificate’ of America, a project carried out by the Museo Galileo in Florence.
First Amendment - 20 Giugno 2019 Guterres to UN Correspondents: Protection of Journalists Is Our Task UNCA VIDEO/ Scannews
First Amendment - 1 Agosto 2018 Freedom of the Press in Ukraine: The Beastly Grin of Democracy Former representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Massimo Introvigne: "The violence of the group in the video looks very strange. I do not know if they have a relation to the police, but the brutality in attacking a journalist is very surprising."
U.N. - 6 Luglio 2018 UNCA’s 70th Anniversary: Guterres and the Sacrifice for the Freedom of the Press UNCA, the organization of journalists at the United Nations recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, and the Secretary General Antonio Guterres remembered the journalists who perished in different parts of the world in pursuit of freedom of the press.
U.N. - 30 Maggio 2018 Fake Killing of a Journalist: Latest Episode from the Ukrainian-Russian Duel Dire situation in Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine army still resulting in thousands of civilians killed and injured, while Ukraine Prime Minster collaborates with Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko in hoax death reports to protect him.
News - 5 Maggio 2017 Journalism, the Lifeblood of Democracy, Is Facing an Existential Threat What is dangerous is when the journalist is viewed as the problem for reporting on the bad behaviour, rather than the bad behaviour itself. When facts no longer matter, then peace deals break apart; when facts don’t matter human rights are abused and impunity reigns; when facts don’t matter, wars become protracted rather than brief
People - 3 Marzo 2017 Goodbye Marco, Talented Journalist and an All-Italian Dad in NYC Marco De Martino was a passionate journalist. He was very much into the unconventional twists in stories. He loved to dig deep in interviews and discover details which could unveil the interviewee, and bring their truth to light. With my friend I shared "parallel" lives: married to two American women in love with Italy, Marco and I became good friends when we had turned into Italian daddies in New York.
Gallery - 9 Gennaio 2015 War on Press: UN Correspondents Comment on the Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo La VOCE di New York asked foreign correspondents at the United Nations to comment on the attack on the office of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo Leggi l'articolo in italiano